Category:Box 119

The material contains a fragment of Bentham's A view of the hard labour bill, as well as several items of correspondence about the panopticon. There are manuscripts in which Bentham lays out how the panopticon was to be managed by contract, and Bentham describes how the prison was to be heated (and these manuscripts contain several of Bentham's rough sketches of the heating system). There are manuscripts describing how the prisoners were to be employed, and Bentham also addresses objections which he expected to made against the adoption of the panopticon. The bulk of this box of material is made up Bentham's draft penitentiary bill.

Of particular interest will be several drawings, plans and sketches of the panopticon drawn by the architect Willey Reveley, who was commissioned by Bentham to produce the plans.

A pre-publication text of Writings on Australia, eds. T. Causer and P. Schofield, in which is included folios 86–97 from this box, is available to download for free from the UCL Digital Repository [1].